“You will watch the people you love become monsters.
„—Olivia Ambrose
Olivia Ambrose is a character in The Outer Worlds. She is the mother of Wilhelmina "Minnie" Ambrose.
Background[]
Understanding Halcyon was "in the midst of a slow moving crisis", she looked into creating a drug that would help the inhabitants discover a way out of the impending disaster, though she admits there was an element of selfishness too.[1] During Project Gorgon, Olivia tried to keep Minnie away from it to protect her from Spacer's Choice.[2]
She first noticed something was awry when the volunteers for Adrena-Time experienced horrific deaths which were met with muted responses from Spacer's Choice.[3] What drove her over the edge was when they released a preliminary version of the drug to the public which brought about terrible consequences.[4] Driven out of a mixture of anger, grief, and horror, she attemped to sabotage the Gorgon Project.[5] She shredded the personnel files in the Office of Creative Incubation, which alarmed Clarence Mostly.[6] She then released the test subjects from Human Inquiry & Auditing, frustrating Marion Blakeslee.[7] She also released the primals from the Compound Harvesting, Enrichment, & Molecularization Lab, aware of the fact they killed the scientists.[8] She opted not to destroy the facilities completely for two reasons: she was not willing to kill so many staff members, and she didn't want to give up on her research.[9] She blamed Spacer's Choice for the failure of Adrena-Time, convinced that it needed more support, though she admitted some faults of her own.[10]
She stayed on Gorgon, driven by a desire to reverse the Marauders' condition without success.[11] She did not let her daughter know she was alive, in order to keep Minnie safe.[12] She survived on a canned diet, and had a few close calls with Marauders over the years.[13]
Since her body was never recovered from Gorgon, Olivia was declared "legally dead" by her daughter. Her husband, Harvey, also died on Gorgon[14].
Interactions with the player character[]
| Available interactions with Olivia Ambrose | |
|---|---|
| Companion | Conversation |
| ✓ | ✓ |
| Quests | Merchant |
| ✓ | ✘ |
| Companion interactions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ellie | Felix | Nyoka |
| ✘ | ✓ | ✘ |
| Max | Parvati | SAM |
| ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
Related quests[]
Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "So I tried to create a drug to expand our workers' minds and improve their bodies... With everyone at their best, I thought the colony might innovate itself out of this hole." (Later in conversation): "... I craved the glory and virtue of success."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "Shutting Minnie out of Gorgon was the most difficult decision I ever made... Her safety has always been my first priority. That it meant staying far away from me... We all make sacrifices for those we love."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "The volunteers - not just the shocking way they died, but the company's muted response to it."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "After Spacer's Choice released the unstable version of Adrena-Time and we began to see its effect on the public, my hand was forced. They weren't going to stop, so neither would I."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "... my memory's hazy. Everything had gone a bit red. My blood was up... If anyone had dared to stop me, I would have snappd them in two." (later in conversation): "Grief and horror had taken me to a... dark place."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "I began by shredding all of the personnel files in the Office of Creative Incubation. Clarence was so alarmed by my barbarism he forgot to call the corporate guard."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "I released the test subjects from Human Inquiry & Auditing. The ghastly things we did to those people.... Marion was screaming..."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "I set the primals free. They tore through the lab like it was made of wet toilet paper."
The Stranger: "The primals slaughtered the scientists!"
Olivia Ambrose: "I know. I remember. I wasn't myself by then."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "I couldn't bear to kill so many of our staff even though our work killed exponentially more colonists. I didn't want to give up on my research, even after all it had cost us."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "If Spacer's Choice had given me time to perfect Adrena-Time... My drug could have saved Halcyon... that isn't to say I couldn't have tried harder or- or enlisted my peers' help."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "I was obsessed with the notion that I might find a cure... right the tremendous wrong we'd done... I think I was a litte mad... But the problem of the marauders was too complex for me to solve."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "Knowing I lived would've only put her at risk... If [Spacer's Choice] hurt her to get to me - I'd never forgive myself."
- ↑ Olivia Ambrose: "Boarst n' Beans, frankly. One thousand, nine hundred and thirty two cans of it." (When asked about Marauders): "I had some close calls in the early years."
- ↑ i Wilhelmina Ambrose on her father.